Hotel Amerika journals have the most gorgeous covers. During self’s peregrinations around the Bookfair (the most fun activity of the AWP conference), self glanced to the left and spied the journal table. Oh, gorgeous, gorgeous books! Self immediately ran up and blurted out that they had published a story of hers in the Trans-Genre issue. Much consternation when that turned out not to be the case. No, it turned out her story was in the latest issue, the one being launched at the Bookfair.

Self just loves, loves, loves the cover, the mysteriously suspended figure of a woman; the inside page, a blank red. So, they handed her two author copies, and below is the cover (Self took the picture in her hotel room: sorry for the bright flash that ruins the image!)